#shallow

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#shallow #since #stupid

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. ↗

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

#careful #conventional #depth #i #i am

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses. ↗

— Robert Musil

#average #contemporaries #deep #fine #geniuses

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#becomes #eats #fly #intellect #mind

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#because #bottom #considered #deep #discover

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#into #knowledge #lover #reluctant #shallow

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#dislike #does #enlightened #into #man

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#goal #life #live #mountain #shallow

I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#i #me #person #pleased #shallow

The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love. ↗

— Erich von Stroheim

#been #begging #brother #father #four